Synodic month length 29.39 days

Length of current 813 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 24 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2065. It is 27 minutes shorter than next lunation 814 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 49 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 19 October 2065 Monday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠327.1°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠327.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠345.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after apogee

1 day after point of apogee on 17 October 2065 at 22:01 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 30 October 2065 at 08:37 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 403 718 km

Moon before descending node

12 days after its ascending node on 7 October 2065 at 10:31 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 21 October 2065 at 20:40 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

Moon in northern standstill

At 05:51 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠25.664°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-25.584° in its southern standstill point on 1 November 2065 at 09:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.